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Letters .Patent No. 75,065, dated March 3, 1868.

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TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS MAY SOME:

Beit known that I, THOMAS W.' SLADE, of Manchester, in the county of Essex, and Stato of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Liquor-Tunnels ;l and I dov hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, making a part thereof. Of such drawings- Figure 1 is a top view,

Figure 2 a front elevation, and

Figure 3 a longitudinal section of a liquor-tunnel provided with my invention.

.Figures 4 aud 5.are views of aj'utages of different sizes, adapted for use with such tunnel-mouth and ajutage-holder`. i l i v i The purpose of myvinvention is to adapt a tunnel for use with vessels whose bung-holes or-eceivingorifices maydiier in size.

In the drawings, A denotes the Vconical mouth-piece or body of the tunnel, as connected at its inferior end to one end of a short tube, B, which-I term the ajutage-holder, it constituting a neck for receiving theajutage C. This ajutage is composed of a cylindrical tube, a, and a conical ltube or frustum, b, the tube a being to encompass and t upon the vneck B, it being held thereto by means of a bayonet-connection or catch, shown at c. It is intended to have-to one mouth-piece, A, a series of the ajutagcs, whose conical tubes vary in tapers or diameters at their inferior ends, two of suph being shown in figs. 4 and 5. By such means the tunnel may be adjusted to bung-holes or openings of diferont sizes. Across the mouth of thetunnel, and a short distance within the same, is a har, D, which serves not only as a rest for the support of the nose of a can while -liquid may be discharged therefrom into the tunnel, but as a handle to lift the tunnel from the bung-holo of a barrel.

I `am aware that a tunnel has been provided with a series of fiusto-conical discharge-pipes of dilerent sizes to flt upon its inner discharge-pipe, and therefore-I make no claim thereto.

The tunnel1 as made, with the body and ajutage in separate parts, and provided with a bayonet-connection to hold them in connection, asset forth. i i

I also claim. the arrangement and combination of the cross-bar or rest D with a liquor-tunnel composed of a conical mouth-piece and an ajutago or dschargemozzle.

' l THOMAS W. SLADE.

Witnesses:

R. .11. EDDY, SAMUEL N. PIPER. 

